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Remove A Pine Tree from your Front Yard Landscaping if it becomes to Large for the Space

See our front yard landscaping change after we removed a pine tree. The tree had outgrown the space it was planted in.

I wrote about front yard landscaping on another page and used this example in a CASE IN POINT at the bottom of the page. This page is going to go into more detail about the tree removal project.

Removing a large tree from your front yard landscaping can be a huge task. It can also be a tough decision to make. Especially if you are a landscape enthusiast. The process is the same regardless of the species of tree you re removing.

This page is designed to show the entire tree removal from our front yard landscaping project, in detail and its happy ending.

These changes took place over a few seasons, it has now been 2 years since we removed the pine tree.

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Pine Tree Shrinks House - Story Below!

Thenext photo shows a front yard, with a big round bush, then a pine tree, then on farther in the distance a pear tree.

Notice how small the house looks in the picture? It actually looks looks like a shrunken house! This proves it, A Picture IS worth one thousand words!

The reason for that is- The trees in the front are out of scale for the size of the property and the house.

This picture was taken the day the tree came down. I took the picture standing up the street past my neighbors house.

The round bush is on her property. You cannot tell from this angle but her bush and my pine tree were almost touching at this point and she trimmed the burning bush each year.

The house looks like a doll house from this angle.

The tree is beautiful, but from the street - the house disappears.

As you can see from the picture below.

A Tough Decision, Does it Stay or does it GO?

Like I said earlier the decision to remove a large tree can be tough, we loved the tree but in our efforts to re-do the front yard landscaping our efforts were hard to see from the street, because of the overgrown pine tree.

We had removed all of the large shrubs in front of the house 2 years before and the change was dramatic. It was definitely worth seeing from the street.

As you can see in the above picture the pine tree and the bradford pear tree were almost touching each other.

Since the removal of the pine tree the bradford pear has grown alot so by now the 2 trees would be totally hiding the house.

So the decision was made the pine tree had to GO!

When asked where I lived-
I did not want to give directions to my house and describe it as the invisible house on the street!

I bet you get my point-

The view was blocked from inside the house too

This photo shows- the pine tree was the view from inside the house.

That picture was taken in the winter, before it was removed that summer, and yes the tree was beautiful and green, but just to big for the space.

Kinda tugs at my heart strings looking back, but now when I look out my window the view is open and feels much larger.

As I mentioned in my other front yard landscaping article we hired professionals to do the actual tree removal.

They were already trimming trees for our neighbor that day so we took advantage of the opportunity to save money.

(Because they still had room on their truck for more trees) so we had them remove the tree for us.

As a bonus we got to take the tree removal project off of our lengthy -TO DO LIST.

I suggest you do the same. Removing large trees of any type can be very dangerous work. But Do take advantage of opportunities like we did.

Here are a few more pictures of the actual removal process.
The pine tree was first trimmed at the bottom about 6 feet up to the point where it could be cut. ( Oh my already the front yard was opening up) YES!

These guys knew what they were doing, by cutting the tree in that exact place they were able to cut it down and have it fall directly where they needed it to go on their truck.

They removed the pine tree and all the debris from it. The professional tree removers had the project done in less than 2 hours.

It would have taken us days to cut the tree, haul it all way by (at the time we did not have a trailer).

So it was definitely best to hire a professional in our situation.

As you can see from the picture below they left with a full truck load - after removing our pine tree.
Now the fun part for me- and it can be for you too. This is the happy ending I mentioned before.